The Neolithic men were familiar with trade. What kind of system they follow?
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Besides, other initiatives undertaken to alleviate poverty include price supports,
food subsidy, land reforms, area development programmes, improving agricultural
techniques, free electricity for farmers, water rates, PRIs, growth of rural banking
system, grain banks, seed banks, etc. Such endeavors not only reduced poverty but
also empowered the poor to find solution to their economic problems. For instance,
the wage employment programmes have resulted in creation of community assets as
well as assets for the downtrodden besides providing wage employment to the poor.
Self-employment programmes, by adopting SHG approach have led to mainstreaming
the poor to join the economic development of the country. But the focus on the
sustainable income generation still remains elusive. A review of different poverty
alleviation programmes shows that there has been slow destruction in the programmes
in terms of resource allocation, implementation, bureaucratic controls, non-
involvement of local communities, etc. NABARD has also been contributing in Rural
Poverty Alleviation through its various schemes like SHG Bank Linkage Programme,
Watershed Development Programme, Tribal Development, Community Development
Programme, Rural Employment Development Programme, Rural Infrastructure
Development Fund, Rural Development Fund, etc.
2.4 Role Being Played by Poverty Alleviation Programme in Poverty
Reduction
Economic growth has largely resulted in Poverty alleviation. Poverty
reduction involves provision of basic needs of livelihood and improving the living
conditions of people who are already poor. The planners and policy makers in India,
as the beginning of development planning, have been grappling with the objective of
merging growth with justice. „Justice‟ may either be conceived of as „economic‟ or
„social‟. Economic injustice arises from inequalities in distribution of income or
purchasing power and social injustice is related to inequalities arising out of social
and cultural institutions (caste, class, religion, gender, etc.).